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‘The Brutalist’ Director Brady Corbet on Making His 215-Minute 70mm Epic and Including an Intermission
'The Brutalist,' the epic story of a Holocaust survivor making a new life in America, will premiere in 70mm and include an intermission
That’s because the epic 215-minute story of a Holocaust survivor forging a new life in America will be shown in 70mm, which means that all 26 reels of film will need to travel in four Pelican cases from Los Angeles to Italy, weighing in at approximately 300 pounds. And it’s a complete anomaly in the case of 70mm, which may be experiencing a renaissance on big studio movies like Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” but is rarely, if ever, an option for independent filmmakers like Corbet. But when he first started planning the movie seven years ago with his co-writer and wife Mona Fastvold, Corbet felt that the format was perfect for a story that begins in World War II and concludes in the 1980s — with a substantial chunk of it taking place in the 1950s.
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